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Update on a disturbing shooting in Ohio
I… wow. I don’t know what to say about this. Cleveland.com has an update on a court case that began last October, when a 16-year-old boy was barred from buying Halo 3 by his parents. In retribution for this, the boy shot both of his parents in the head, killing his mother and wounding his father, a pastor. It’s difficult to look at the facts in the case and say “the parents did a bad job”, or “the boy clearly had problems that weren’t being addressed” – from the details available in the original story, it would appear he was a normal kid with a normal life. Would something else have driven him to this extreme if it hadn’t been a video game? It’s impossible to say… but it’s a frightening case that should make you think a little bit about violence in our society.(Louis Wu 17:00:53 UTC)
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2008 Best of Halo Awards: Accepting Nominations
Hawty McBloggy is taking on the massive task of running a ‘Best of Halo’ awards ceremony for 2008 – and is currently accepting nominations in a variety of categories. Swing by and make her job easier! (Louis Wu 16:45:51 UTC)
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Halo 3 Webcomics – Free Hosting for Halo comics
More from TTL Demag0gue – he’s kicked off Halo 3 Webcomics, and is providing a home for anyone who wants to publish a Halo-based webcomic. Nice! (Louis Wu 16:45:21 UTC)
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Master Chief, Oil on Canvas
mendicantbias00 let us know about his nephew, who created a pretty cool Halo-based oil painting… at age 12. Swing by the thunder and the surf for full details. (Louis Wu 16:44:34 UTC)
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Halo Wars Facts
MTV’s Stephen Totilo has a few previously-unknown tidbits to share about Halo Wars – one of the hero units available will be a female spartan, for example, and the Halo Wars story will explain how canon is not broken between Halo and here. Go read the rest! (Louis Wu 16:43:36 UTC)
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Halopen Pencast Episode 03
Firestorm12 let us know that the HaloPen Pencast Episode 3 is now online – comments can go on their forum. Discussion revolves around their newest projects – Quixotical and Quixotical: {CITIZEN TRANSFER} (you can contribute here, or learn more here).(Louis Wu 16:43:00 UTC)
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Turnkey
TTL Demag0gue stopped in to point out Reclaimer 124 – and more of Ferial’s machininations become clear.(Louis Wu 16:42:26 UTC)
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AH: Over, it is.
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The contest is done. We received tons of entries. Some better than most. Now we will look through Almost three-hundred entries And pick our favorites. More contests will come As we get more prizes for you, our rad users. Notifications For…
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Sheet Music For Sale
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According to Marty O’Donnell (and he should know) you can finally buy 100% official Halo sheet music, starting with One Final Effort from Halo 3.
Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
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A Very Marathon Christmas
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Still ten shopping days left, but Aleph One has left all the old school fans a present to open early: a new version of the open source Marathon engine for playing Marathon 1, Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity and third-party scenarios on PCs, Macs, and Linux computers.
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Halo Sheet Music For Sale
Halo music fans have been waiting for Halo sheet music for a long, long time – and it looks like it’s finally coming. (There’ve been fan-arranged releases… but it’s not quite the same thing.) Marty O’Donnell pointed out that One Final Effort (from Halo 3) is now available from Sheet Music Plus – and he hopes that more will be available soon. Check it out!(Louis Wu 15:21:25 UTC)
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Halo 3, Nintendo-style
Hawty McBloggy has spotlighted one of her readers in her latest article – CrazedOne1988 has put together a series of images that represent various Nintendo games… using Halo screenshots. Interesting concept!(Louis Wu 15:18:28 UTC)
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Last year was better.
GamesRadar has a piece explaining why 2008 sucked compared to 2007 – and the hoopla that accompanied the launch of Halo 3 is part of what they liked.(Louis Wu 15:16:38 UTC)
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Silent Cartographer SPV2 gameplay, with commentary
Wow. The team working on the campaign modifications for HaloCE has released a video showing off SPV2 Gameplay footage, specifically the beginning of the Silent Cartographer level. I must say, I’m stunned. Go watch (the commentary is great). Thanks, Botolf.(Louis Wu 22:09:26 UTC)
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Duel with the Duo
Whoa… urk is working weekends? World domination is nigh! A new entry in the Bungie Blog highlights a newish movie from The DuoGroup, called ‘Duel with the Duo‘. Awesome choreography, and some funny situations. Check it out!(Louis Wu 21:58:19 UTC)
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What’s Vital to You?
DASH wrote to us to point out that the promotional website for the movie ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ contains a list of the earth’s 12 most vital items (as judged by what people who visited the site thought they needed to keep). Number one on the list? Halo 3! (Huh? The Bible comes in at #7, and Boobs are all the way down at #9. And the TV show ‘Ugly Betty’ is at #5? Hmm…)(Louis Wu 21:55:53 UTC)
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2old2playHalo’s Clan Montage
jonny12guage stopped by to point out a clan montage he put together with the help of his 2old2play buddies – quality’s nothing to write home about, but gameplay’s fun, and the timing on some of the clips is great. Go watch!(Louis Wu 21:53:04 UTC)
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Team Fortress 2: $9.99 this weekend
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Valve has discounted Team Fortress 2 this weekend. TF2 is just $9.99 through Steam. Go here to purchase:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/440/
Minimum requirements:
1.7 GHz Processor
512MB RAM
DirectX® 8 level Graphics Card
Windows® Vista/XP/2000
Mouse, Keyboard, Internet ConnectionFor all you 360 fanboys – and like most all modern FPS titles – this game supports a controller.
The Hushed Casket will have a TF2 dedicated server in the coming weeks.
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft